urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-68b9b575-0ea5-4083-857b-45e43439295aIBM Sametime design - Tags - emoticons Discussions regarding the user experience and design of IBM Sametime.12014-06-12T09:35:46-04:00IBM Connections - Blogsurn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-fc6b5497-b833-4b9f-8e96-8aa2c51c9285fun with emoticons :-) :-)amy_travis1100006T7GactiveComment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2011-07-19T05:30:00-04:002011-07-19T12:42:28-04:00I love emoticons -- as any of my co-workers will confirm. :-) When I find icons that I like, I add them to an emoticon palette. When I run into a situation that feels like it needs an emoticon (someone going on a vacation to the beach, for example), I find an emoticon that I can use, and add it to the chat.<br /><br />One preference you can set that makes it super easy to use emoticons is to set a short-cut key for your emoticon. Here's how this works.<br /><br />1. Add the emoticon to an emoticon palette. You can do this in Preferences - Emoticon Palettes - Add Picture:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/josefscherpa/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/add-emoticon.png" target="_blank"><img alt="image" src="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/josefscherpa/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/add-emoticon.png" style=" display:block; margin: 0 auto;text-align: center; position:relative;" /></a> <br /><br />2. Now, with the picture added, enter shortcut text that you can use to bring that up. For example, suppose I add this picture to my emoticon palette:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/josefscherpa/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/woohoo.png" target="_blank"><img alt="image" src="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/josefscherpa/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/woohoo.png" style=" display:block; margin: 0 auto;text-align: center; position:relative;" /></a><br />To make it easy to insert this emoticon into my chats, I just specify a shortcut that will cause this emoticon to display. For example, let's say I want this emoticon added whenever I type &quot;/wh&quot;. I can specify this in that same Preferences page, as the keyboard text:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/josefscherpa/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/assign-text-emoticon.png" target="_blank"><img alt="image" src="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/josefscherpa/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/assign-text-emoticon.png" style=" display:block; margin: 0 auto;text-align: center; position:relative;" /></a> <br /><br />Now this emoticon will display in my chat whenever I type &quot;/wh&quot;.<br /><br />
I love emoticons -- as any of my co-workers will confirm. :-) When I find icons that I like, I add them to an emoticon palette. When I run into a situation that feels like it needs an emoticon (someone going on a vacation to the beach, for example), I find...0010068urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-68b9b575-0ea5-4083-857b-45e43439295aIBM Sametime design2014-06-12T09:35:46-04:00